This article provides a detailed walkthrough on adding dimensions to a drawing using the VDCI-TIC-48 style, including linear dimensions for wall openings, roof overhangs, and top of plate and floor level dimensions. The guide also discusses how to adjust crowding dimensions and navigate different views while working on a project.
Key Insights
- The article outlines the process of adding dimensions to a drawing in VDCI-TIC-48 style. This involves setting the overall scale to 48, and beginning to add dimensions focusing on areas such as the top of plate and floor level, wall openings, and roof overhangs.
- When working on a drawing, it is important to adjust crowding dimensions to ensure clarity. This can be achieved using Grip Edit to move two or more dimensions at once, which can be particularly useful when dimensions are in the same exact location.
- Switching between different views, such as left, right, back, and front view, throughout the process can provide a more comprehensive perspective of the project. After adding dimensions to one view, the article suggests moving to another view and repeating the process until all necessary dimensions have been added.
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We can now begin to add our multileaders and dimensions into this drawing. If I go to the Home tab, I can see that I'm still on the A Text layer, but we want to add our dimensions first.
So I'll go to A-DIMS, and then I'll go to the Annotate tab. We can see that we already made our MLeader48 style when we were working on our window blocks, but now we want to add our VDCI-TIC-48 style for our dimensions. I'll hit the Dimension Style dialog box button here, and then here we see VDCI-TIC.
I'll go New. Again, this is going to be named VDCI-TIC-48. Starting with VDCI-TIC, I'll hit Continue, and under Fit, we're going to set the overall scale to 48, and I'll use 48,000. I'll hit OK, and Set Current and Close.
Now we have our VDCI-TIC-48 style. Let's zoom in on the Left elevation, and we can begin to add our dimensions. We can see that there aren't too many dimensions.
On this sheet, we do have the top of plate and floor level dimension, then dimensions for the heights and location of our wall openings. That's our window and our attic. Also, the roof overhangs are dimensioned, although they wouldn't necessarily have to be dimensioned because they're on the roof plan, but in this case, it's good practice to do it anyway.
We're going to use linear dimensions for all of these, so I'll go Linear. I'll start over here on my top of plate and floor level. Just grab this endpoint here to this endpoint here, and come over to perpendicular or to a midpoint or endpoint snap right there.
I'll go back to Linear. I'll work on this window next. Notice the dimensions go to the floor level lines, so this one's going to be the Shift+Right Click, Intersection right here to the endpoint right there.
There we go. Four feet eight. Click to place, and then I'll go Continue Dimension.
Click here. Enter to say I'm done. Go back to Linear.
In this case, I'll start up here dimensioning the size of this window opening, one foot one. I'll do Linear again, this time across the bottom, and I'll place it here preparing for a Continue Dimension and take that Continue Dimension all the way across. Here's Continue Dimension.
All the way across, and I'll choose that endpoint right there, and then finally I'll continue over for that three foot overhang. Click to place. Ah, you can see I didn't quite get my one foot one low enough on my wall.
This three foot zero dimension is crowding a little bit. In this case, I'm going to grab all three of my dimensions, and using Grip Edit, it actually moves two dimensions at once. It's because it grabs both grips that were in this same exact location.
So I'll use Grip Edit and click here. Then I need to use Grip Edit on this single dimension, and I'll snap it here. Perfect.
There are no other dimensions we need to add to this view, so let's go to our Views and switch to our Right view. We'll do left and then right. Similar sets of dimensions here.
We're going to go Annotate, Linear. Again, we'll add in our eight foot one dimension. Then here it's a little crowded, but that is the right place to dimension these.
So I'll go Linear from here. Zoom in, choosing that endpoint. Pulling down.
It's a little easier to place this dimension, of course. And then Continue Dimension. That's to the wall, to our attic, and the attic opening.
Enter to lock it in. Linear one more time from here to here. And then this overhang is the last one.
From here to here. And I can snap to this endpoint just to line them up across the drawing. Okay, Control+S to save.
Let's go back to the View tab. Let's switch over to our Back view. A few more dimensions here.
Okay, let's jump in. I'll go to Annotate, Linear. Again, I'm starting with that finished floor to top of plate.
Back into Linear. Here, I'm going to start at this intersection. So Shift+Right Click, Intersection here to here.
Now, I might need to wiggle my mouse side to side to get it into that vertical orientation. Click to place. Continue Dimension to the top.
Enter to say I'm done. Back to Linear. And here I can simply choose the door to the door.
And there's my six foot eight. We do have those small one foot overhangs here and here. So let's throw those in.
Linear. Those are fairly short. Linear.
And just to match them up, I'll drag down to show this is a horizontal dimension. And then I'll move my mouse all the way over and click right here. Control+S to save.
Let's go to the Front view. View. Front.
Same dimensions are going in here. Linear. Floor level to top of plate.
Okay. Here it gets a little crowded, so we're going to put our door dimension here and our window dimension here. Linear.
Here's the door dimension. Six foot eight. And the window dimension.
I'll do Shift+Right Click, Nearest to snap onto my floor level line. There we go. And Continue Dimension to the top.
Escape, Escape, Escape, Escape. Finally, let's add in those overhangs. Linear.
There's one foot. And Linear. Again, I'm going to show down, move my mouse across, and choose this endpoint.
Click. All right. Let's switch back to our Left view.
Zoom Extents. Control+S to save. In the next video, we will add our multileaders.
See you there.
